Signup for the Beta Like Goodreads but private and personalized to your taste.
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Kids
  • YA
  • 🥇 Best Books 2026
  • Personalized Reading Picks
  • Profile
  • Refer friends
  • 🐇 🕳️ ✨
  • Logout
Browse
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Kids
  • YA
  • Best Books 2026
  • Personalized Reading Picks
  • Home
  • For Authors
  • Our Story
  • Membership
Natural history Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

Natural history

  • All Time Best
  • Trending
  • New
  • By Book DNA
  • List by Experts

Natural history book lists by experts

Explore science fiction book lists created by fans.

  • Benjamin von Brackel The best books that´ll help you understand the biodiversity crisis—by telling you a great story Book cover of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Book cover of The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions Book cover of Silent Spring Book cover of The Swarm Book cover of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
  • Paco Calvo The best books to grasp (once and for all!) that we, humans, are not that special Book cover of Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death Book cover of And the Birds Rained Down Book cover of How to Love the Universe: A Scientist's Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World Book cover of We Belong to Gaia Book cover of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
  • John N. Thompson The best books on coevolution and relentless evolution Book cover of A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich Book cover of Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature Book cover of A Planet of Viruses Book cover of Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution Book cover of Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
  • Keith Heyer Meldahl The best books about geology that tell great stories Book cover of The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet Book cover of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World Book cover of Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault Book cover of A Short History of Nearly Everything Book cover of Annals of the Former World
  • Tom Mustill The best books to escape into worlds of animal wonder to change how you see nature Book cover of The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children Book cover of One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth Book cover of Shaman Book cover of A Sand County Almanac: And Sketched Here and There Book cover of Exhalation
  • Mitchell Thomashow The best books for deep environmental learning Book cover of Fathoms: The World in the Whale Book cover of The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans Book cover of The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis Book cover of Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape Book cover of Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
  • Chris D. Thomas The best books on biodiversity change Book cover of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Book cover of Where Do Camels Belong?: Why Invasive Species Aren't All Bad Book cover of Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life Book cover of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World Book cover of Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
  • Alexandra Witze The best books on deep time Book cover of Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World Book cover of Deep Time: A journey through 4.5 billion years of our planet Book cover of The Fifth Season Book cover of Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds Book cover of Theory of the Earth Volume I
  • Jeff Campbell The best nonfiction animal books that make you go holy sh*t! Book cover of Poking the Squid Book cover of Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law Book cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Book cover of How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution Book cover of The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
  • Paolo Squatriti The best books on how plants make human history happen Book cover of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World Book cover of Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants Book cover of The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Book cover of Anglo-Saxon Crops and Weeds: A Case Study in Quantitative Archaeobotany Book cover of Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station
  • Graham Shields The best books by scientists that depict science in action Book cover of Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution Book cover of The Mediterranean was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger Book cover of The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life Book cover of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Book cover of Silent Spring
  • Debra Hendrickson, M.D. The best books about environmental health or climate change Book cover of Silent Spring Book cover of The End of Nature Book cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet Book cover of The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet Book cover of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  • Sandy Sheehy The best books to help you understand the amazing world of coral reefs Book cover of The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans Book cover of The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs Book cover of The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness Book cover of Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone Book cover of Citizens of the Sea: Wondrous Creatures From the Census of Marine Life
  • Sushma Subramanian The best books about the senses Book cover of A Natural History of the Senses Book cover of For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind Book cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Book cover of The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession Book cover of Touch
  • Elizabeth Randall The best books for saving Florida from becoming an arid dump of toxic waste Book cover of Majorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida's Environment Book cover of Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. Book cover of Palmetto Country Book cover of Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida's Future Book cover of Silent Spring
  • Ellen E. Wohl The best books about trees, living and dead Book cover of The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors Book cover of The Overstory Book cover of The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature Book cover of Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology Book cover of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
  • Paul Pettitt The best books for understanding the evolution of the human mind Book cover of Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness Book cover of Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind Book cover of Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness Book cover of The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood Book cover of The First Ghosts
  • Conor Mark Jameson The best books by and about W. H. Hudson, in his own words Book cover of 153 Letters From W. H. Hudson Book cover of Idle Days in Patagonia Book cover of Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Book cover of Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life Book cover of The Book of a Naturalist
  • Iris Gottlieb The best books about the mysteries of nature Book cover of Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science Book cover of A Short History of Nearly Everything Book cover of The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World Book cover of Underland: A Deep Time Journey Book cover of The Bathysphere Book: First Sight of the Ocean Depths
  • John F. Haldon The best books on premodern societies, climate, and environment Book cover of The Holocene: An Environmental History Book cover of Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths Book cover of A Rural Economy in Transition: Asia Minor from Late Antiquity Into the Early Middle Ages Book cover of The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 Book cover of The History of the Countryside
Something went wrong :(

Copyright © 2026 - Bookdna.com

NLP Powered By Wikifier.org

Book DNA is a participant in the Bookshop.org and Amazon Associate Affiliate Programs. As a participant, we may earn from qualifying purchases made on those sites.

Discover
  • Discover The Best Books
  • Follow Our Development
About
  • Our Story
  • For Authors
  • Media Inquiries
  • Contact Us
  • Become Founding Member
  • Donate
Legal
  • Affiliate Disclosure
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Website Disclosure

Login

Create Account

Continue with Google

or

Forgot Password?
Continue with Google

or